Issues/Policy

One-hundred organizations representing more than 5 million Nigerians, including farmers, faith-based organisations, civil society groups, students and local community groups, have submitted a joint objection to the country’s National Biosafety Management Agency (NABMA) expressing serious […]

AJMAN, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Firefighters extinguished a blaze Tuesday that burned up the side of several towers in the United Arab Emirates city of Ajman, the latest in a series of skyscraper infernos […]

The senate has summoned Ibe Kachikwu, the minister of state for petroleum resources, to appear before its committee on petroleum downstream on Tuesday over fuel scarcity in the country. Jibrin Barau, chairman of senate committee […]

The Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, said on Tuesday in Abuja that he would not resign as he still had a lot of work to do. The minister said this as part of […]

The Nigerian Army on Tuesday said its officer kidnapped on Sunday has been killed by his abductors. “The Nigerian Army wishes to regrettably inform the public that Colonel Samaila Inusa, who was kidnapped on Sunday […]

In my column last week, I dismissed as a storm in tea kettle, the public outrage which followed President Muhammadu Buhari’s February sack of the councils and vice chancellors of the National Open University of […]

The Nigeria Immigration Service on Sunday said it repatriated 25 illegal migrants from Rivers State. The Comptroller, Rivers command of the service, Ishaka Haliru, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Port Harcourt. […]

Two weeks ago, Justice Yusuf Haliru of the FCT High Court, sitting in Jabi, Abuja, had this to say about the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC): “The EFCC is a creation of the ‎law. […]

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon regrets a “misunderstanding” over his use of the word “occupation” to describe Morocco’s annexation of Western Sahara, which led to Morocco expelling dozens of US staff, his spokesman has said. A UN-Morocco […]

Northern youths under the auspices of Arewa Intergrity Youth Forum (AIYF), have taken a swipe at the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Sen. Bola Tinubu over comments berating the Minister of State […]

ABAKALIKI – AN All Progressive Congress, APC Chieftain, Comrade Chinedu Ogah weekend called on all the Governors of the South East geopolitical zone of the country to decamp to APC and stop accusing the APC […]

LAGOS—THE ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, was literally divided, yesterday, over whether or not Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, should retain his prime position in the APC-led Federal Government on account […]

This week, Nigeria said it would send an astronaut into space by the year 2030. The news was not, as you may have suspected, an update of a widely circulated scam on Facebook which claimed […]

“Kachikwu’s flippancy was out-of-line. He was basically telling Nigerians that they should be lucky that they are getting the inadequate supply they now suffer…” Apparently appalled by his seeming lack of empathy and manifest arrogance, […]

Mr. Godwin Emefiele, governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), started a “war” last year by placing a ban on the allocation of forex for the importation of 41 items. Opinion is still sharply […]

Former Nigeria leader Olusegun Obasanjo has explained what became of the funds recovered from Nigeria’s best advertised kleptocrat, General Sani Abacha. Calling the court of law and Nigerians who want to know what he did […]

Prof. Bola Akinterinwa is a  former Director General, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs (NIIA). In this interview, he bares his mind on President Muhammadu Buhari’s trips abroad which critics say are too many, among other […]